Star Trek: Discovery’s 5th and final season debuts, with “Red Directive” and “Under the Twin Moons”…

*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** Last weekend, I saw a sneak preview of the first part of Star Trek: Discovery’s 5th and final season’s two-part premiere, “Red Directive.” Though I was under an unofficial nondisclosure agreement with the entire audience not to reveal spoilers before the debut, I am no longer under that constraint, so here goes. Before…

Star Trek: Discovery is “Coming Home” after a turbulent 4th season…

*****STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!!***** I swore I wasn’t going to focus on episodic recaps of “Star Trek: Discovery” (DSC) anymore because, as I said in an earlier column, the negative feedback I received (much of it in since-deleted racist/sexist/homophobic comments & emails) was just not worth it. Conversely, if I wrote any legitimate criticisms of the…

Star Trek: Discovery, S3.12: “There Is A Tide” to be turned…

*****FEDERATION HEADQUARTERS-SIZED SPOILERS AHEAD!!***** Written by Kenneth Lin, the latest episode of Star Trek: Discovery is now available for streaming on CBS-All Access, and this exciting actioner takes more than a few pages from a certain disputed holiday classic. It is also the opposite of last week’s surreal study in angst and loneliness. “There Is…